In developing ourselves and helping develop other people, one of the forgotten arts is journaling. I have become a huge journaling advocate, probably for the last 20+ years. Even though I'm not a coffee drinker, I'll often just go to a coffee shop, pull out a notebook and just write ideas, observations, ideas for the companies, messages I want to send to clients,..
After 30+ years of teaching leaders how to coach, I still get the question a lot:
More and more tools are coming out in the workplace coaching sphere that allow us to have asynchronous conversations. Asynchronous means something that doesn't always occur at the same time, much like the traditional coaching method of set weekly or monthly sessions. Asynchronous is more flexible whenever you need it.
When we think about emotional intelligence (EQ), it's really about understanding your emotions. Most people, especially in high school or college, don't typically attend semester year-long courses in emotional intelligence. Yet what if they would? What if they could? What if universities offered it? What a wonderful opportunity.
For someone who's been teaching coaching as long as me, as well as coaching youth sports, I've always loved the concept of coaching nudges.
Journal-based coaching is one of the greatest things people can do to develop and accelerate their career. I think it involves meditation, reflection and thought provocation. At its core, simplistic level, when you journal, the process makes you slow down. You have to write, which is typically slower for most people than..
Recently, our company has embarked on a very cool endeavor, and that is our own custom tool using artificial intelligence to measure coaching conversation skills. With that said, I think it's a very interesting opportunity for us as a company. But people have asked me (including people inside my own company) why we are doing this.
Out of all the episodes in Coaching Conversations, I want to introduce you to a concept that I'm really excited about, called AI Coaching Partners.
One of the greatest lessons I learned, which was over 40 years ago at IBM, is the value of being in control of feedback.
Journal-based coaching really has taken on many different nuances. In The Progress Principle by Teresa Amabile, she used journaling to actually create contextual, if not statistical references to the benefits of progress. What did she notice?